Frequently Asked Questions

  1. Why use antrun and not the Ant program itself?
Why use antrun and not the Ant program itself?

Maven has certain benefits over Ant. And for your Ant projects to take advantage of these, you can use Maven as your project management tool and use its maven-antrun-plugin to build your Ant projects.

Furthermore, if you wish to migrate from Ant to Maven, you can use this plugin first, then gradually convert your Ant expressions into their corresponding Maven expressions.

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